"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong." (George Orson Welles)

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others." (George Orson Welles)

"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles)

"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Orson Welles)

"I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could." (George Orson Welles)

"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles)

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts." (George Orson Welles)

"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose." (George Orson Welles)

"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles)

"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai." (George Orson Welles)